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The astrophysical reach of current and future ground-based gravitational-wave detectors is mostly limited by quantum noise, induced by vacuum fluctuations entering the detector output port. The replacement of this ordinary vacuum field with…

Modified gravitational wave propagation is a smoking gun of modifications of gravity at cosmological scales, and can be the most promising observable for testing such theories. The observation of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Francesco Iacovelli , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella

We propose a tunable resonant sensor to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range of 50-300 kHz using optically trapped and cooled dielectric microspheres or micro-discs. The technique we describe can exceed the sensitivity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Asimina Arvanitaki , Andrew A. Geraci

One of the noise sources that currently limits gravitational wave (GW) detectors comes from the quantum nature of the light causing uncertain amplitude and phase. Phase uncertainty limits the precision of an interferometric measurement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Nancy Aggarwal

Gravitational Waves (GWs) provide a unique way to explore our Universe. The ongoing ground-based detectors, e.g., LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, and the upcoming next-generation detectors, e.g., Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Zhenwei Li , Xuefei Chen

In this work, using the Gaussian process, we explore the potentiality of future gravitational wave (GW) measurements to probe cosmic opacity at high redshifts through comparing its opacity-free luminosity distance (LD) with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Xiangyun Fu , Jianfei Yang , Zhaoxia Chen , Lu Zhou , Jun Chen

A world-wide array of highly sensitive interferometers stands poised to usher in a new era in astronomy with the first direct detection of gravitational waves. The data from these instruments will provide a unique perspective on extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Neil J. Cornish

Gravitational wave experiments have entered a new stage which gets us closer to the opening a new observational window on the Universe. In particular, the Einstein Telescope (ET) is designed to have a fantastic sensitivity that will provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Aleksandra Piórkowska , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

We consider improving the sensitivity of future interferometric gravitational-wave detectors by simultaneously injecting two squeezed vacuums (light), filtered through a resonant Fabry-Perot cavity, into the dark port of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 Farid Ya. Khalili , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by LIGO has opened the era of gravitational wave astronomy, revealing a previously hidden side of the cosmos. To maximize the reach of the existing LIGO observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Rana X Adhikari , Odylio Aguiar , Koji Arai , Bryan Barr , Riccardo Bassiri , Garilynn Billingsley , Ross Birney , David Blair , Joseph Briggs , Aidan F Brooks , Daniel D Brown , Huy-Tuong Cao , Marcio Constancio , Sam Cooper , Thomas Corbitt , Dennis Coyne , Edward Daw , Johannes Eichholz , Martin Fejer , Andreas Freise , Valery Frolov , Slawomir Gras , Anna Green , Hartmut Grote , Eric K Gustafson , Evan D Hall , Giles Hammond , Jan Harms , Gregg Harry , Karen Haughian , Frances Hellman , Jan-Simon Hennig , Margot Hennig , Stefan Hild , Warren Johnson , Brittany Kamai , Disha Kapasi , Kentaro Komori , Mikhail Korobko , Kevin Kuns , Brian Lantz , Sean Leavey , Fabian Magana-Sandoval , Ashot Markosyan , Iain Martin , Rodica Martin , Denis V Martynov , David Mcclelland , Graeme Mcghee , Joseph Mills , Valery Mitrofanov , Manel Molina-Ruiz , Conor Mow-Lowry , Peter Murray , Sebastian Ng , Leonid Prokhorov , Volker Quetschke , Stuart Reid , David Reitze , Jonathan Richardson , Raymond Robie , Isobel Romero-Shaw , Sheila Rowan , Roman Schnabel , Merle Schneewind , Brett Shapiro , David Shoemaker , Bram Slagmolen , Joshua Smith , Jessica Steinlechner , Simon Tait , David Tanner , Calum Torrie , Joris Vanheijningen , Peter Veitch , Gavin Wallace , Peter Wessels , Benno Willke , Christopher Wipf , Hiro Yamamoto , Chunnong Zhao , Lisa Barsotti , Robert Ward , Angus Bell , Robert Byer , Andrew Wade , William Z Korth , Frank Seifert , Nicholas Smith , Dimitry Koptsov , Zeno Tornasi , Aaron Markowitz , Georgia Mansell , Terry Mcrae , Paul Altin , Min J Yap , Marielle Van Veggel , Graeme Eddolls , Edgard Bonilla , Elvis C Ferreira , Allan S Silva , Marcos A Okada , Diego Taira , Daniel Heinert , James Hough , Ken Strain , Alan Cumming , Roger Route , Daniel Shaddock , Matthew Evans , Rainer Weiss

We derive some of the central equations governing quantum fluctuations in gravitational waves, making use of general relativity as a sensible effective quantum theory at large distances. We begin with a review of classical gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Mark P. Hertzberg , Jacob A. Litterer

Space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, are expected to observe black hole coalescences to high redshift and with large signal-to-noise ratios, rendering their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius , David Spergel

Gravitational-wave (GW) astrophysics is a rapidly expanding field, with plans to enhance the global ground-based observatory network through the addition of larger, more sensitive observatories: Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-03 Sarah E. Gossan , Evan D. Hall , Samaya M. Nissanke

Gravitational waves carry unique information about high-energy astrophysical events such as the inspiral and merger of neutron stars and black holes, core collapse in massive stars, and other sources. Large gravitational wave (GW) detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Peter S. Shawhan

Gravitational waves propagate along null geodesics like light rays in the geometrical optics approximation, and they may have a chance to suffer from gravitational lensing by intervening objects, as is the case for electromagnetic waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-12 Yousuke Itoh , Toshifumi Futamase , Makoto Hattori

LIGO's detection of gravitational waves marks a first step in measurable effects of general relativity on quantum matter. In its current operation, laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors are already quantum limited at high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Belinda Pang , Yanbei Chen

On a time scale of years to decades, gravitational wave (GW) astronomy will become a reality. Low frequency (nanoHz) GWs are detectable through long-term timing observations of the most stable pulsars. Radio observatories worldwide are…

It is shown in the present Letter that the quantum noise due to high laser intensities in Michelson interferometer for gravitational waves detection can be reduced by sending squeezed vacuum states to the 'dark' port of the interferometer.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Yacob Ben-Aryeh

We use the non-observation of strong lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) in the first three observation runs of LIGO-Virgo detectors to constrain the fraction of dark matter in the form of compact objects in the mass range…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 A. Barsode , S. J. Kapadia , P. Ajith